[UK]National transgender festival Sparkle kicks offThe national transgender festival, Sparkle, has begun in Manchester.The festival, now in its seventh year, is the biggest event on the trans calendar and is billed as a “celebration of gender diversity”.

[Malta]LGBT activists show their pride in Valletta marchThe Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) colours brightened up the Valletta streets yesterday morning during the annual Gay Pride March, dubbed ‘I am Pride’, organised by the Malta Gay Rights Movement and supported by various organisations who have the LGBT cause at heart.

[Australia]Transexual and partner in late-night CBD attackAn Adelaide author was bashed in an unprovoked attack she describes as being like a scene from Fight Club.Teri Louise Kelly, 50, was walking home with her partner, who wanted to be named only as Red, through Hurtle Square before midnight on Thursday last week when they were attacked by two men. (Photo)

[USA]Quick Hit: Changing Driver’s License Gender Markers, Coming Soon?The current edition of MOVE, a magazine for the American Association of Motor Vehicle Administrators (AAMVA), includes extensive coverage of issues transgender people face with identification cards. The article “Transgender Drivers: New Norms in Customer Service,” encourages DMV staff in all states to reflect on their treatment of transgender people and sets a positive tone for transgender people in their service offices.

[CA, USA] [Film]Gun Hill Road: One Of The Best Trans Films You’ll See All YearQueerty‘s back at LA’s LGBT film festival Outfest catching the latest in contemporary queer cinema. Our film review coverage kicks off with a look at a violent depiction of New York Riqueno family relationship between a machismo ex-con father, his transgender teenage son, and the mother who loves them both.

[NY, USA]NYS Senate Kills Transgender RightsThe Republican-led New York State Senate that said “I do” to same-sex marriage barely flirted with passing the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act (GENDA) that would ban bias against people of transgender experience as New York City does.